From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Why does graffiti look the same everywhere? Fat letters are universal.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Visit to Quan Thanh Temple.
Hanoi: Peaceful scene. I seem to have missed getting a photo of Quan Thanh Temple itself.
Hanoi: Took advantage of a photo shoot someone was doing, maybe for a wedding.
Hanoi: Quan Thanh Temple area.
Hanoi: Occasionally I saw these beautiful old Banyan trees.
Leaving Hanoi: Another illustration of the narrow long "tube" buildings. Some researchers say this is because at one time taxes were based on street front width.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Interesting to see what is under the water in the rice fields.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Looks like a portable pump for moving the water. Only time I saw this.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Workers in the rice paddies. Some nice structures in the background.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Planting rice. Notice the cemetery in the rice paddie - we saw many cases of graves in the middle of a rice paddy.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: This one seems a bit wet? Maybe for planting.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: OK, way too many photos of workers in the rice fields (and I'm just getting started), but it's very interesting.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Rice planters arrived on scooters and bicycles.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Apparently it is planted in standing water.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Planting rice.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Planting rice.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: 1 of 3 showing planting.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: 2 of 3 showing planting
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: 3 of 3 - put the plant in a mud hole.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Planting rice.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Planting rice.
From Hanoi to Halong Bay: Planting rice.
Halong Bay: This is the boat that takes us to our HaLong Bay ship.
Halong Bay: Get ready for a lot of photos of HaLong Bay!
Halong Bay: UNESCO World Heritage Site HaLong Bay.
Halong Bay: UNESCO World Heritage Site HaLong Bay. Local fishing here and there.
Halong Bay: UNESCO World Heritage Site HaLong Bay. Crowded in some places!
Halong Bay: UNESCO World Heritage Site HaLong Bay.Another fishing couple.
Halong Bay: UNESCO World Heritage Site HaLong Bay. The beauty!
Halong Bay: A karst with trees.
Halong Bay: UNESCO World Heritage Site HaLong Bay. The beauty!
Halong Bay: Getting ready to see the cave. That's the starting point...up there.
Halong Bay: View of a ship with (fake) red sails from the Sung Sot Cave entrance.
Halong Bay: Sung Sot Cave.
Halong Bay: Sung Sot Cave.
Halong Bay: Sung Sot Cave.
Halong Bay: Sung Sot Cave.
Halong Bay: Sung Sot Cave. The people give an idea of the size of this cave!
Halong Bay: Judy and I at a platform in front of Sung Sot Grotto.
HaLong Bay as the sun sets.
HaLong Bay as the sun sets.
HaLong Bay the next morning, in a dark sky.
HaLong Bay. Setting up for a day of fishing?
HaLong Bay in the early hour - just magical.
On the way to airport to go to Hue, we stop at a village and meet a man who hulls rice in a hand machine.
Village near Hanoi: The rice goes through two hand machines to be cleaned and to remove the hull material.
Village near Hanoi: Young woman and some kids watch us as we walk through the village.
Village near Hanoi: This is a wedding in progress in the town.
Near Hanoi: It's raining a bit, and this woman is heading home.
